Recent Reports
the South Australian and Tasmanian 2010 state election data.
In February 2010, CPI Strategic was commissioned by the Herald-Sun to analyse publicly available Victorian State Election Data.
analysis of the publicly available market research on the climate change issue.
This study is not an exhaustive study of all of the questions raised by the climate change debate.
Rather it focuses on three issues —
» the level of public concern about the issue,
» which of the major political parties is perceived to be best able to address this issue, and
» the level of public support or opposition to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
While climate change has occupied and often dominated the headlines over the last couple years, the
publicly available research on community attitudes towards issues associated with it is not extensive.
Consequently, this study focuses on the data available from four sources — Newspoll, Climate Institute
(Australian Research Group [ARG]/Auspoll), Lowy Institute and Essential Media Communications (EMC).
PDF can be downloaded here
The ‘China advantage’
This report aims to spark further public debate on this important national interest issue. Astonishingly,
there is currently very little public debate. It is a social justice matter that all Australians should be
concerned about. This report highlights the dangers posed by a FTA with China – which would not only
be a threat to jobs, but also impact the employability of our children.
Australia’s track record of other signed free trade agreements (FTAs) is telling. Australia has FTAs with
Singapore, Thailand and USA. Our imports from these countries has increased faster than our exports to
them. Research released in 2007 indicated that 26,000 jobs have been lost since these agreements
were signed.
The same report indicated that an FTA with China could create 12,000 jobs but cost 170,000 manufacturing jobs.
